Co-Marketing Strategy and Developing New Products: A Case of Trabzon Local Tourism Destinations


Ayyıldız H., Uygun H.

Global Interdisciplinary Business-Economics Advancement Conference (GIBA), Florida, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri, 15 - 18 Mayıs 2014, cilt.1, ss.503-511

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Cilt numarası: 1
  • Doi Numarası: 10.5038/2333-4207-v1
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Florida
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Amerika Birleşik Devletleri
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.503-511
  • Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

It is evident that the incomes gained through tourism makes a significant contribution to the sustainable local development worldwide. Principally, small-scale local tourism destinations should develop marketing strategies which can create an edge over distinguished tourism destinations. Co-marketing strategy, as the optimum marketing strategy, provides advantage to small-scale local destinations in terms of cost reduction, enhancing efficiency, and creating rich resource for tourism while carrying on tourism activities. The aim of the study is to exemplify marketing activities in line with co-marketing strategy by grouping tourism resources of a specific region in a way that supports sustainable development and advancing new small-scale destinations. Thereby, with competitive advantage they gained, new small-scale tourism products (destinations) which unify their resources can contribute to the regional development. To that end, 61 tourism resources in and around the city Trabzon are included in the sample of this study. The data were collected through site observation and analysed in line with qualitative methods. As a result, in and around the city Trabzon, related to co-marketing, having different themes from each other four new small-scale local destination plans were developed and suggestions were made. Keywords: Tourism, Tourism Destinations, Developing New Destinations, Co-Marketing, Trabzon.